Seashore to break ground on Herring Cove lot

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Oct 12, 2018 at 3:01 AM

Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent Brian Carlstrom says a public groundbreaking ceremony to kick off the construction of the Herring Cove North Parking Lot in Provincetown will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the south end of the lot.

The north lot was extensively damaged during the 2011-2012 winter season, and storms and erosion every year have continued to wash away most of the north lot and revetment.

A half-mile of Province Lands Road will be relocated and the lot entrance will be reconfigured.

A new bicycle lane will connect the Province Lands Bicycle Path with the Moors Road bicycle lanes.

The north lot will retain the same 208 parking spaces as existing, including 12 accessible parking spaces, and be raised up five feet to an elevation of 15 feet with four paths to the beach on access mats.

Herring Cove Beach is the most popular of the Seashore’s six beaches, with 347,228 visits in 2018.